Drought

The pattern of sunny perfect weather is now over with small changes in the forecast each day into early next week. The 5 day forecast may end with some heavy rain from the remnants of tropical storm Karen.I'll be updating the details of the forecast on Twitter at @growingwisdom Please follow me there. Feel free to comment or ask questions too.

Back in 1947 there was no rain at all for 26 consecutive days beginning on the 3rd of October. That record stands as the longest period of no rain in Boston. There are other even more impressive records with little rain such as the 52 days where only a tenth of inch of rain fell. That lasted from October 1st 1924 until mid-November. The tiny bit of rain they did see back then fell on the 8th of the month.I'll be updating the details of the upcoming summer-like warmth on Twitter at @growingwisdom Please follow me there. Feel free to comment or ask questions too.

A few very light showers moved across a few towns this morning, but if you didn’t get one, you didn’t miss much. It’s been 16 days without measurable rain and that stretch is going to continue for many of us beyond today. You will still need to water the lawns and gardens.

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It's over. Our week long heat wave, which many of you wanted to be finished before it started, broke overnight. Unfortunately there was little or no rain with the change in air mass. It's quite unusual to have such extreme heat for so long and not get a thunderstorm or shower when it ends. However, the atmosphere just wasn't ideal for thunderstorm development in spite of the heat and humidity.

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We lucked out today as a sea breeze moved inland around noon and pushed all the way back past Route 128. Boston did go over 90F again, but then fell back to the lower 80s and humidity levels fell as well. Since the high temperature was 91F at Logan Airport, the heat wave continues unbroken. Although there were heat warnings and advisories up, the criteria for them was barely met, if it was at all, along the coast. At my house we fell about 4 degrees as the sea breeze pushed temperatures under 90. This was welcome relief from what looked like a very hot day at sunrise.

Tomorrow I don't think we will be so lucky. A southwest wind is going to be strong enough to prevent any sea breezes and therefore temperatures are headed towards 100. Saturday will be day 7 of the heat wave with temperatures in the lower 90s.

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After a warm and muggy night a pair of very hot days is on the way. Today, temperatures are going to approach record levels. The record for the next three days is 96F and even in Boston we will come close. I don't think we will exceed the record, but a high temperature of 95F is definitely in the cards. Air quality isn't so good today and an alert for high levels of ground ozone (a pollutant) is up for the areas in grey.I'll be updating the details of the heat and the weekend forecast on Twitter at @growingwisdom Please follow me there. Feel free to comment or ask questions too.

Much need rain showers continue to rotate through the area this afternoon. At times the rain totally stops only to be followed by a few downpours a few moments later. There has even been some sunshine across parts of the region. The unsettled day is thanks to a storm system spinning in the atmosphere to our south. The satellite image below shows the storm spinning around New York city. This storm has enough energy and moisture with it to be pushing rain showers into the area. Eventually, later this evening the system will move east and north and the chance of showers will end.

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You knew it was going to come to an end at some point. Our fine stretch of nearly perfect weather is about to undergo a big change for the rest of the week and into the weekend. A block in the atmosphere has prevented any rain from reaching the area for several weeks. January and February had very close to normal precipitation, but since that time we have had only about half the amount of rain needed this time of year.

I was having a rare cup of coffee this morning with a friend (I am more a tea guy) and discussing what to blog about this afternoon. He quipped, that there wasn’t much to say about nice weather which is certainly mostly true. However, all this dry weather is going to quickly become an issue as the foliage is rapidly emerging on the trees and water is being used by all the plants at a terrific rate.

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